Dear Status: you don’t know what you’re getting into
Hi, my name is María Paula, and some of you might know me because I’m a troll. I also work at Golem, a team that has the best sense of humor — so they inspire me to be a better troll every day ❤ — you may say they’re enablers, I say they are patrons to my meme art. Sort of the Medicis of memes.
I started my meme career when I was very young. I think my parents figured out I could read when I was 5 and reading newspaper titles, and it kinda went downhill from there. At 7, I was immersed in Edgar Allan Poe and I made all these images of The Crow saying funny stuff. Basically, I have been in the meme scene for a long, long time.
BTW, my favorite meme happens to be this one — old habits die hard:
My meme career has been taking off since I got more creative freedom, and when me and a team just started ETHBerlin, it got out of control.
On a daily basis, I stumble upon bright minds that found the value in memes and cherish them, and incorporate their teachings in my practice.
I have nothing but great words to those brave ones that first found value in memes at r/memeeconomy. We will solve world peace, one meme at a time — move over Dennis Rodman.
Memes are important for many aspects.
Please allow me to quote Simon De La Rouviere, one Meme scholar I truly admire:
See his posts on meme economy, as he is more lectured than I (and can read more than 2 lines of code as well!) — I am just an artist.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6d0mqt/simon_de_la_rouviere_code_for_curation_markets/
I believe the single most important aspect of a meme is that it removes us from stressful settings and generates easygoing conversations. We are building the decentralized future, and I cannot imagine how we would pull this off sustainably if we didn’t add a quota of sense of humor to our days.
Moreover, memes can now be considered a universal language. After all, we failed at Esperanto, Lojban, and geez some of us really fail at code. But there’s hardly any people that fail at humor (except Trump — that guy is never funny — yet he is to be laughed at, in certain situations).
Status contacted me without knowing I was obsessed with their team and project— poor guys. They are the nicest and their dApp, like Golem’s, actually WORKS — and works well, that’s like huge.
Whatever, back to the memes. After my studies on the Ethereum ecosystem, decentralization and of course, analysing everything via the memeization of the space, I came up with several categories to judge your creations, together with a team of #blessed meme connoisseurs. Read more in the Status blogpost.
I am honored, moved and humbled to be the judge of this meme competition, we are set to start a revolution, and we need an army. May the best meme connoisseur win — I will not let you down.
But you better be up to standards, this will be worse than when Gordon Ramsay gets on to judging other people’s flan.
